A new report concludes that app-driven transportation companies like Uber and Lyft are having an increasing impact on society and therefore need greater consideration and oversight by their governments.
The NBA franchise said the connectivity at the sports and entertainment complex, opening in fall 2016, will be 17,000 times faster than average residential Internet service and will be capable of handling the equivalent of 225,000 online photo posts per second.
The contractor will provide at least a 10-gigabit capacity circuit connection and 24/7 support for a California Department of Technology facility in Santa Ana. The state also maintains facilities in Vacaville and Rancho Cordova. Each of the three sites must have unique Internet service providers.
In order to help prepare Californians for the wintry and wet forecast ahead, the state of California and its Department of Technology have jointly launched a new online resource where people can check for warnings during floods, mudslides and other natural disasters.
Vivek Ranadivé, majority owner of the Sacramento Kings, will work at the head of a team and fund to invest in innovation opportunities that originate from the university campuses. UC’s Office of the Chief Investment Officer (UC Investments) will be an anchor investor, committing $250 million to the project.
The State Controller’s Office has updated the Government Compensation in California website to include more than $36 billion in wages in 2014 paid to more than 600,000 city and county government workers.
State Treasurer's Office CIO Jan Ross announced her agency's new alternative approach to procure an update to its debt management system in 2016. The new approach, that includes "off ramps" for the state and vendor to part ways if the project goes sideways, will include an overarching contract and individual work authorizations for multiple, sequential projects to be built and delivered.
The California State Auditor released a report on Dec. 10 regarding the status of procurement in the judicial branch. The report states: “Although the Judicial Council needs to strengthen controls over its information systems, its procurement practices generally comply with applicable requirements.”
The California Department of Technology on Thursday morning launched a pilot program to rate IT vendors to increase performance and accountability in state technology projects.
Longtime tech industry advocate Carol Henton, an influential voice at the California State Capitol on policy, legislation and other IT matters, is retiring at the end of the month from her position as vice president of state, local and education for the Information Technology Industry Council (ITIC).
Vendors, bidders and suppliers that do business with the state of California will now be able to register online with the launch of Cal eProcure, California’s new online marketplace for businesses wishing to sell goods and services to the state.
The Nevada Division of Welfare and Supportive Services will use a $1.5 million federal grant to install cloud-based fraud detection services from Pondera Solutions, the company announced on Friday.
The new website, openbudgetsac.org, is built from data about Sacramento’s proposed 2015-16 budget that the city published on its open data website, http://data.cityofsacramento.org. The data previously was available only in PDF format, Code4Sac said.
The $12.3 million project within the Department of Social Services will “create a single case management database to combine intake, scheduling and reporting functionalities into a single workflow.” The work will consolidate the existing four-decade-old mainframe database housed at the Office of Technology Services, and more than 20 ad-hoc applications.
The Department of Social Services, the Office of Systems Integration and the Department of Technology are hosting a vendor forum on Friday, Dec. 4, 2015 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. to share their new, modular procurement approach for the Child Welfare System – New System (CWS-NS).
Jan Ross followed John Chiang to the State Treasurer’s Office (STO) in January to be the organization’s IT director – a position she previously had at the State Controller’s Office when Chiang was controller.
In an open RFP, the city of Sacramento is looking for a vendor to "design and implement a natural language interactive voice response system for the 311 Call Center.
Though the city and vendors disagree on reasons for problems, a company executive says her team is focused on working with the San Francisco Department of Building Inspection so its portion of the project is a success.
The Department of Technology and the Department of General Services are inviting firms that do business with the state of California to give their input on proposed parameters for the Contractor Performance Evaluation Scorecard (CPES).
California Correctional Health Care Services is seeking a Software-as-a-Service supplier for a solution that will provide approximately 1,400 filers access to electronic filing of Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) Statement of Economic Interest Form 700.
The Nov. 30 technology letter says that California agencies and state agencies must design and develop websites and Web-based applications "that are equally accessible to people with disabilities."
The board’s responsibilities will include analyzing challenges to the free flow of information on the Internet, promoting the development of promising new digital technologies, and examining policies that impact the digital economy on topics such as broadband, cybersecurity and privacy.
The California Department of Technology has responded to questions from prospective bidders interested in the state’s bid invitation seeking vendor-hosted software for human resources tools for agencies and departments.
Victoria Powers has been named an enterprise territory manager covering California state government accounts for Aruba, a Hewlett-Packard Enterprise company.
The Urban Hive, a popular collaborative work space in midtown Sacramento, plans to open a new 40,000-square-foot innovation space downtown during the first quarter of 2016.
